I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus?” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying… — Kane Copy Share Image
D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a… — Mark Stoneking Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
